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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrics.

JOSEPH LOEB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

.CHIENILLE FRINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,534, dated July 17, 1883.

- Application filed May31,1882. (Noihodeh) Figure 1 is a view showing'the fringe em-' bodying my invention and the web from which the same is formed. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are diagrams to be hereinafter referred to, Figs. 2 and 3 being half the size of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a chenille fringe having pendants woven with balls which are.

separate from the body portions of the pendants, but are formed and connected therewith in the operation of weaving the fringe, whereby the balls are firmly secured to the pendants without liability to shift, and their attachment by knotting at a separate operation is avoided, and the product-is rendered cheaper, better, and more attractive.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the fringe embodying my invention, consisting of the head a, pendant b, and balls 0, each pendant having connected with it at its lower end one or more balls, 0. It will be noticed that the balls are separated from the pendants and held in position by means of connections d, formed of threads which are attached to the pendants and balls, so that the latter depend from the pendants by means of said connections d.

In the formation of the fringe I weave a web, B, in which thick threads 6 are employed at intervals as weft or filling in the body thereof, as well known in the manufacture of chenille fringe. The warp-threads f, from which the projecting pile of the bodies of the pendants is formed, are separated, as at g, from the threads h, from which the projecting pile constituting the balls is formed, one set of separated warps h being employed when a single ball is required for each pendant. Where two balls are required the threads employed for making the two balls are separated from each For three balls I leave an additional space, it, Fig. 3, in the web between the threads for the second ball and those for the third ball.

' It is evident that the number of balls may be multiplied, theweb being woven wider and the proper spaces left therein between the threads from which the different balls are produced.

In the web, I represents the fine weft-thread which binds the body of each pendant and the ball thereof.

Referring to Fig. 2, which is a diagram showand the thread is thrown back to and through the warp-threads of the first ball, as at h, and returned through said warp-threads, as at k, and, finally, again through the warp-threads of the first ball and through the body of the web and the head, as at Z, after which the throwis repeated twice in the head and body of the web, as at m, thus completing the throws of the fine threads for one pendant, two balls, and the contiguous part of the head of the fringe. In the completed fringe the thread is not separated, as in Fig. 2, but properly beaten up as the weaving progresses.

In Fig. 3 the diagram illustrates the method of forming three balls with each pendant, as

' in Fig. 4. In this case the operations are similar to those described with reference to Fig. 2, excepting that there is another series of throws of the binding thread through the warp-threads designed to form the additional ball, the warp-threads being spaced, as has been referred to heretofore, and shown in Fig. 3; It will be seen that the throws of the binding thread serve to hold together the pile threads of the body of each pendant and of each ball, connect the ball, though separated from the body of the pendant, .with said body, and secure the ball in such manner that it cannot shift in any direction, whereby the ball is re- Chenille fringe having each of its pendants woven with one or more balls below the body portion thereof, and separated from said body I 5 portion by an interval or space, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH LOEB.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDnRsnEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

